Judge raises Lepeska's bail to $250,000

MIAMI -- A judge increased the bail on a homeless man
accused of stalking tennis star Anna Kournikova to $250,000 Friday,
saying she was worried about his mental state.

William Lepeska was arrested Jan. 30 after police said he swam
nude across Biscayne Bay in search of Kournikova's $5 million house
on Miami Beach's Sunset Island 3. He was arrested naked in a
neighbor's pool area.

"We are trying to protect the community. We consider him a
threat," prosecutor Peta Fancy-Jackson said.

Fancy-Jackson told the judge Lepeska was convicted of
first-degree reckless injury in Milwaukee for stabbing a sleeping
college student. He was imprisoned from 1995 to 2000. In late 2001,
he was returned to prison for eight months for violating his
probation.

Kournikova's civil lawyer Dan Gelber read from the Milwaukee
police report that the reason he had committed the act was "to
appease the power of evil."